Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba March 2001 saturday free p Section today including nothing Down an Ontario mortgage firm is the first to offer Home buyers a Godown payment option b12 f i Brier forecast sports columnist Paul Wiecek predicts who will win Curlings holy grail d1 deaths Cost firms dearly judges impose record fines on companies for workplace safety breaches the mainly Cloudy wind be 20 high3 low15 t inside by Mike Mclntyre Manitoba put a Steep new Price on workplace safety violations yesterday with a pair of record setting court judgments in cases where workers were killed on the this shows employers that they must take a proactive approach to it also tells employers they must know the ignorance is no Geoff executive director of the provinces workplace safety and health said outside a construction company based in British Columbia was handed the largest Fine in the provinces history yesterday morning after pleading guilty to violations in the death of a 50 year old Man in the the Crown and lawyers for the com Pany had submitted a joint recommendation for a Fine in the Range of to provincial court judge Brent Stewart took the unusual step of overruling their proposal and imposing a much stiffer he cited changes to the 1997 work place safety and health legislation that raised the maximum fines to from Stewart said Manitoba courts have yet to act properly on the changes and that he was taking the first bosons reach volleyball final u of m women volleyball team upset to ranked Laval and will play Sherbrooke today for top honours d1 net luring alleged a James teacher has been charged with sex offences after allegedly trying to Trade nude photos with an 11yearold girl Over the internet a3 Spanky nope a highly respected Winnipeg lawyer is getting a lot of Cheek from colleagues after a nation Al Post editorial confused him with his client and labelled him a sexual deviant a5 parents outraged a baby boys grieving parents were outraged yesterday by the conditional sentence his daycare provider received in his death a9 statues in peril i the United nations led an Lith hour drive yesterday save two ancient statues of Buddha and other Buddhist relics in Afghanistan a13 four hours another judge fined Clearwater electric in the death of a teenage it ranks As one of the biggest fines Ever this certainly sends the signal offences like this will not be said Crown attorney Mary who handled both continued please see fatalities a4 native self Rule Deal historic pact could Blaze Trail to More accountability by Helen falling Joe free press Dorothy a therapist at David Livingstone holds charts to help Dani Don her the real Price of a drink i Busin tragic social Cost of fetal alcohol syndrome drives maps Campaign by Carol Sanders air links added can Jet airlines has announced increases in ser including a Winnipeg Thunder Bay flight with connections to Toronto b12 the number of Canadian Chil Dren diagnosed with fetal Alco hol syndrome has soared in the last in 240 fas babies Are born every in this two part reporter Carol Sanders takes a look at heartache and Hope on the front line against today invest or pay later nearly three decades after it was first diag fetal alcohol syndrome has become an epidemic in parts of costing taxpayers nearly half a billion dollars More to treat each every year in 240 babies Are born with birth defects and brain damage caused by their pregnant mothers consumption of Alco health officials say each will Cost society million in extra Justice and social services spending and lost productivity during their amounting to a hangover that rapidly getting on Quarter of the prison population has our schools Are struggling to teach kids branded social services Are swamped with adults who cant hold Down jobs and parents who cant care for children who Are often the hardest to care in some its reached epidemic said Winnipeg North Centre nip my Judy who introduced a private members Bill calling for warning labels on alcoholic in a Liberal members Bill was voted Down after intensive lobbying by the alcoholic beverage but Wasyly Ciales expects to win this fight the has since adopted the warning labels and canadians Are starting to see the devastating Impact of the incurable but preventable she three out of every babies born worldwide have full blown fas and five to 10 times As Many have some degree of impair but researchers say those numbers May be significantly higher in aboriginal comm and Manitoba aboriginal birth rate is Boom statistics show the aboriginal birth rate is four to six times higher than the general popu by per cent of Winnipeg popu lation will be at one first nation school in Northern Mani researchers found roughly 100 cases of fas per and for every child identified with fetal alcohol syndrome or some of its there were probably two or three others with behavioural and learning problems caused by exposure to alcohol in they its beginning to alarm said Val the adoptive Mother of three fetal Alco hol affected one of whom is 13 and in care after being kicked out of hav ing ruins with the Law and being hit by a car playing Chicken in continued please see fas a4 Sioux Valley Manitoba first aboriginal self government signed Here blazes a Trail that could Lead to a new Era of first nations this is the Federal Indian affairs minister Robert Nault told the free press yesterday after smoking a peace pipe with Sioux Valley Dakota chief Ken Whitecloud to Seal the the Sioux Valley agreement Ingrin Ciple lays the foundation for a final agreement in about two years that will return to band leaders the Power to make Laws and deliver services on their own the first nation is negotiating control Over almost everything now under fed eral and provincial jurisdiction include ing education and Justice but Canadas criminal and human rights Laws would still apply on the which lies 225 Kilometres West of relationship altered Only a handful of other aboriginal groups in Canada have progressed As far on the Road to other Manitoba first negotiating self government jointly through the province wide framework ment Are expected to keep a close Eye on what happens in Sioux Val such pacts will forever alter the relationship Between aboriginal and Nonato original although it May take a generation for full Nault yesterday that deals like one in Sioux Valley Are the answer to growing Public cynicism about wasteful spending and corrupt leadership in some first nations those issues have been in the Public Eye since staff of the federally funded addictions treatment Centre at Manito Bas Sage eng first nation went on a Caribbean cruise last continued please see Sioux Valley a2 a saturday ;